According to court paperwork the children told police they were locked in their room and could not leave. Investigators said the children told them "they would have to pound on the wall to get someone to take them to the bathroom and they would urinate on themselves and on the bedroom floor when no one would come."

The court paperwork said "the victims were found to be extremely disheveled with dirt, animal hair, urine and feces in their clothing and encrusted into their skin."

"Everything you open, there's bugs running," Herb said.

Inside the house, WHP-TV spoke to a man who said he lived there but did not want to appear on camera. He said he fed the kids each a single apple every morning, but he did not know they were being abused.

"The pictures in this case were terrible. To see these children, you knew that they were near death when you see the pictures," Marsico said.

The district attorney said all three children were either still in the hospital or back in the hospital.

The parents were facing numerous charges, the most serious of which was aggravated assault.

"The aggravated assault is very similar to the attempted homicide charge. So the aggravated assault would probably encompass that," Marsico said.

Both the homeowner and neighbors said they wish they had known so they could have helped.

"Them little kids, why didn't they just give them up instead of torturing them?" a neighbor, Fred Anderson, said.

The district attorney said animals in the home were fed and healthy while the children were starving. Police said both Brandi and Joshua Weyant have denied abusing or neglecting the children.